Average salaries would be bad for their self-esteem!
All major studies have pointed out that blacks have lower IQs than whites. Add to that fatherless homes and a environment where superior black children are blackballed for “acting white” and you could have the best teachers yet still have crappy scores.
You know sometimes it is the kids. Most don’t care about going to school except for social reasons.
I’m not going to defend the teachers one way or the other. they can defend themselves but I would say these troubled school districts problems start with the students and their failed families and homes. until that gets fixed I wouldn’t expect miracles from these teachers
So what’s the scorecard on the parents? It takes a village to raise idiots.
This is one where we really need to see the data. The Detroit Public Schools deal with kids from a broken city full of broken (or never formed) families. That it has horrible outcomes on standardized test scores compared to the state-wide norm is hardly surprising. The question is whether the teachers honored as excellent are actually doing a good job in lift their students up, so that without them the deficit in performance would be even more dismal, or are being honored for nothing. Without real data we can’t tell.
There is something to be said for doing a good job when handed a nearly impossible task.
Two words: unions and “educators”.
There is state and Federal Bonus money available for teachers rated as “highly Effective” in “at-risk” schools, in most places.
The wife is getting a $1250 bonus for getting that rating for the 2013-14 school year.
That would explain this. It is Detroit, after all.
Massive “grade inflation.”